A final word about X-window

A final word about X-window

The GUI applications for Linux are always changing, evolving and adapting to user needs. Linux has come a long way in the past few years. It is becoming a serious threat to the dominance of Microsoft Windows not only in the server market but on the desktop as well. The important work done by the people in the GNOME and KDE projects as well as other those carrying out development of other window managers and XFree86 show the level of commitment there is to getting Linux on the desktops of the worlds computers in offices and homes.

In this lesson we've given you a number of addresses of web pages of these types of projects. The best thing to do to support these efforts is to check back on these projects from time to time, install the latest version and talk to your friends about how good you think they are. Also, contact the developers or join the mailing list for that particular project and provide feedback, both positive and negative, about the software you've tried. That's essentially what the Linux movement is all about. You can also volunteer to do some work. You don't have to be a programmer to make a vital contribution. You can translate the documentation or the graphic interface to your native language, for example. In the end, any form of collaboration is good. That's how Linux grew into the major operating system that it is and that's essentially what the Linux movement is all about.